About the Authors

Monique Ferreira Silva Souza

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Departamento de Clínica e Cirurgia Veterinárias, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Departamento de Patologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lucas dos Reis de Souza

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Clínica e Cirurgia Veterinárias, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Pamela Aparecida Lima

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Clínica e Cirurgia Veterinárias, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Tatyane Martins Cirilo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Samuel Alexandre Pimenta Carvalho

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Lilian Lacerda Bueno

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

João Luís Reis Cunha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of York, York, United Kingdom

Tatiane Alves da Paixão

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Patologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Renato Lima Santos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rls@ufmg.br

Affiliation Departamento de Clínica e Cirurgia Veterinárias, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

MFSS, LRS, PAL, SAPC, JRLC, TAP, RTF, and RLS are coinventors in a patent application for protection of intellectual property on the synthetic peptides described in this study and their application (Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial – INPI, protocol # BR 10 2023 018883 4). The remaining authors (TMC and LLB) declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship or publication of this article.